We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
AGNES DE MILLEWhen I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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